Simon Harding

It may just be that I was able to give this one some proper concentration, which isnt always the case, but I seemed to get through it quite swiftly. There were just a … Read more >>

Apologies for the slightly tardy posting. I’ve only just managed to finish this one, though I think that’s more down to my own disorganisation this week, rather than this being an unusually challenging … Read more >>

Quite a challenging week, I thought, though I did make life difficult for myself by absent-mindedly writing in SKIP at 23 across like a chump. It helped to know your Samoan currencies, as … Read more >>

Probably somewhere in the middle of the difficulty range this week, I seemed to find. We’ve reached a bit of a landmark, with a nice round puzzle number, but I didn’t spot any … Read more >>

This one seemed quite hard at first, but things did fall into place steadily enough. Lots of nice long anagrams to work through, too. I’m not certain I’ve quite nailed the parsing of … Read more >>

Gosh, quite a tough week for me. Browsing the answers it’s not hard to see why. There’s a lot of unfamiliar stuff in there, either whole terms or just alternative spellings. Which we … Read more >>

Followers of Phi’s blog will have known to expect a slightly Christmas-themed Beelzebub this week. The extra challenge was that we have six unclued entries which could be arranged to form a seasonal … Read more >>

I’d hesitate to suggest that Beelzebub was getting easier, but it does seem like the last handful of weeks have been relatively painless. This one went in smoothly in one session, with a … Read more >>